Jesus, the Conqueror, reigns

Jesus, the Conqueror, reigns. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788) First published in the two-volume Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749), the title-page bearing Charles Wesley’s name alone, in an extended section entitled ‘Hymns for Believers’. It had sixteen stanzas, and was clearly too long for congregational use. In A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780) John Wesley* shortened it to six stanzas, divided into three parts, using stanzas 1-6. It was included in the section ‘For Believers Fighting’. It was further shortened to five stanzas in the Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book (1904), which omitted stanza 3 of the 1749 text:     That bloody banner see,     And in your...

If you have a valid subscription to Dictionary of Hymnology, please log in to view this content. If you require a subscription, please click here.

Cite this article